The Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center, aka the Baltimore Supermax prison, opened in 1989 at a cost of $21 million (in 1989 dollars) with room for 288 inmates.

Ignoring the merits, the government seeks a quick dismissal of a civil-rights lawsuit alleging neglect and mistreatment at America's most famous prison. The prison guards who found Jose Martin ...

Gil Halsted of Wisconsin Public Radio reports on conditions inside so-called "Supermax" prisons in Ohio and Wisconsin. Supermax prisons keep inmates deemed to be dangerous in isolation. Critics ...

Supermax prisons experienced a building boom in the 1980s and '90s, largely in response to "get tough on crime" policies. In Illinois, gangs effectively ran some prisons, and violence was epidemic.

Reporter says prison is eerily quiet Next Article in U.S. » CNN justice producer Terry Frieden was part of the first-ever media tour of the U.S. Bureau of Prison's Administrative Maximum prison ...

Fourteen years ago, Maryland opened its ultramodern Supermax prison, a high-tech fortress to hold the "worst of the worst." In contrast, a few blocks away stood the Maryland Penitentiary, a dark ...

Christopher Boyce, a convicted spy who was incarcerated at Supermax, left the prison about 100 miles south of Denver with no regret. “You’re slowly hung,” he once told The Times.

Supermax is the only institution in the state to house death row inmates, and five of the 160 prisoners are awaiting execution. The visitors were taken to death row.

Supermax has an ultra-secure unit, so-called “Range 13,” a four-cell wing in the prison’s disciplinary unit, where prisoners have virtually no human contact.

Twenty-year-old David Tracy hanged himself in a Virginia supermax; he had been sent there at age 19, with a 2 ½ year sentence for selling drugs. The mentally ill are vastly overrepresented in supermax ...

The maximum security, or ‘Supermax,’ prison in Florence, Colo., where El Chapo will likely be sent. Photo: JASON CONNOLLY/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images ...